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Nintendo drops the Megaton
Out of Tokyo this morning (mid-day in Japan) Nintendo has announced the move that could change gaming forever.
In an announcement early this morning, Nintendo and Sony executives announced that they had come to a legal agreement over the rights to the name 'Playstation'. The name, which was originaly given to a joint-venture CD rom based add-on for the Super Nintendo, was technically, a joint-owned copyright. Sony has agreed to pay Nintendo 10% of all past and future proceeds made off of the name. This ammounts to a whopping 2.3 billion USD in back-payments. Nintendo will allow Sony to pay the money back in installments instead of a lump sum over the next 20 years. However, Nintendo has plans for their new found source of income. They will immidietly finance a new game studio called 'The Artists Group' which will feature members of Sega, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Square-Enix and more to collaborate on projects for Nintendo systems, and exchange copyrighted properties. The first projects announced out of this new studio are a new RPG using various gaming icons as the central charachters, a new Smash Brothers game, featuring mascots from accross the companies, including Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Mario and more, as well as a new Sega-AM2 developed racing game that will also feature multiple icons from the various companies. The final collaboration is the recently announced Viewtifull Joe from Capcom stuidios. Nintendo has also promised that completely original more collaborations between studios will take place in the future, but for now, they will be focusing on quality content showcasing the newfound bond between the various development houses. Contrary to internet rumors however, Nintendo has not as of yet purchased any software developers, and as such, all members of the Artists Group will be allowed to explore development on other systems of their own accord. More as it develops.
[UPDATED: Wednesday 2:17 18/12/2002]
Nintendo drops the Megaton
Out of Tokyo this morning (mid-day in Japan) Nintendo has announced the move that could change gaming forever.
In an announcement early this morning, Nintendo and Sony executives announced that they had come to a legal agreement over the rights to the name 'Playstation'. The name, which was originaly given to a joint-venture CD rom based add-on for the Super Nintendo, was technically, a joint-owned copyright. Sony has agreed to pay Nintendo 10% of all past and future proceeds made off of the name. This ammounts to a whopping 2.3 billion USD in back-payments. Nintendo will allow Sony to pay the money back in installments instead of a lump sum over the next 20 years. However, Nintendo has plans for their new found source of income. They will immidietly finance a new game studio called 'The Artists Group' which will feature members of Sega, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Square-Enix and more to collaborate on projects for Nintendo systems, and exchange copyrighted properties. The first projects announced out of this new studio are a new RPG using various gaming icons as the central charachters, a new Smash Brothers game, featuring mascots from accross the companies, including Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Mario and more, as well as a new Sega-AM2 developed racing game that will also feature multiple icons from the various companies. The final collaboration is the recently announced Viewtifull Joe from Capcom stuidios. Nintendo has also promised that completely original more collaborations between studios will take place in the future, but for now, they will be focusing on quality content showcasing the newfound bond between the various development houses. Contrary to internet rumors however, Nintendo has not as of yet purchased any software developers, and as such, all members of the Artists Group will be allowed to explore development on other systems of their own accord. More as it develops.
[UPDATED: Wednesday 2:17 18/12/2002]
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SR/Upwire probably nicked it from you.
I think that this consoles-talk page is a load of bull, but Nintendo are still yet to announce it, so they might be right...
I think that this consoles-talk page is a load of bull, but Nintendo are still yet to announce it, so they might be right...
wahey! looks like it could be true!
now upwire have it, althoguh they say it still could be a rumour, yet they say it very well could be true!
now upwire have it, althoguh they say it still could be a rumour, yet they say it very well could be true!
This story is now on SR as well!
Check out http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=2302
Though they still say it could only be rumours, but hey...
Check out http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=2302
Though they still say it could only be rumours, but hey...
i found the link on cube-europe. someone had replied to a news article with it today. it could be true.
but just in case *gets even bigger stick out* mhahaha!
but just in case *gets even bigger stick out* mhahaha!
Tphi *<[:^) wrote:
we'll here about it
> "first" from nintendo in a couple of days, you'll see.
Errrrr but this was Nintendo announcing it, so why isn't it on other sites?
With something as big as this, news would have travelled fast.
It's all lies I tells ya.
we'll here about it
> "first" from nintendo in a couple of days, you'll see.
Errrrr but this was Nintendo announcing it, so why isn't it on other sites?
With something as big as this, news would have travelled fast.
It's all lies I tells ya.
It's not true, now where's my stick at....
well, no official mention yet. but i'm not surprised. nintendo like to announce these things in triumph. we'll here about it "first" from nintendo in a couple of days, you'll see.
Yes, and you can dig holes under their warrens and lay bombs..oh, wait, that was WWI.
*does the funky rabbit*
*does the funky rabbit*
Yeah. I think it should be the Nintendo version of GTA. Turf wars between rabbits and hares. And you could have the added bonus of being able to crap on enemies turf too pee them off.
If it's true I'm hoping for a game starring rabbits.
Rabbits have been direly under-used in games.
Rabbits have been direly under-used in games.
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